Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-02

conduct of Mr.. Sherman and his associ-
ate since the war has only intensified
the bitterness which was engendered |
by the brutal outrages committed by |
Shermah's friends during the warm
which his brother distinguished him
self as plunderc- and incendiary.
He then declares that he was "a
disciple OF that school Of politics OF
which Henry Clay and John Bell we're
the leading apostles" and endeavors to
enlist the feeling OF those whose fathers
were old line wings. His bid for their
influence was an insult very thinly
disguised. He then goes on TO say:
was also taught to love, cherish,
and respect the rights of the States,
and TO regard them as the agents OF
the people for local purposes, pre-
cisely as the general government is
the agent OF the people for national
purposes; that they were to be loved,
cherished and respected as the guard
ians OF personal rights OF family re-
lations, Of property and and social ties,
distinguished from national authority
has been the disturbing element OF
American politics.
II any man can show in the life OF
this radical evangelist single instance
where he has by word or act shown any
OF that "love and respect" which he
says that he twas taught to cherish, :"
for States rights, we would like for
him to place it on exhibition. No in
stance is on record. He adds:
This, at least, is the theory / have
been taught, and il any OF you, reared
in different school, have inherited
jealousy and suspicion OF Federal au-
thority and OF especial reverence for
that OF the State OF Tennessee, you may
find in this the germ OF the controversy
fought out in the war.
The Jealousy and suspicion OF Fed
eral authority" has been kept alive by
the conduct of just such men as Sher-
man, and it is fresh in the recollection
OF every Southern reader that the radi.
cal Senate, OF which Mr.. Sherman was
Speaker, claimed only few weeks aga
the right TO appoint committee to in
vestigate the conduct OF citizens oil
Texas in an affair the jurisdiction o.
which,belonged solely and exclusively tc
the State of Texas. The germ" of the
conference.-the inspiration oil Mr.
Sherman and his followers is the ides
that States have no rights under The
constitution which the radical party il
bound to respect, and Mr.. Sherman
knows that the State OF Ohio would
resent such Federal interference al
quickly as the State of Texas. The
jealousy and suspicion OF Fedora
authority" is we'll founded and it will
live as long as Mr.. Sherman and hii
party continue their aggressions anc
insults for party purposes.
After lame excuse that the SLAYER,
question drove him out OF the oil
Wing party, with its brodd platform
into the abolition party he tries to ex
plain away the facts in regard to thu
position OF the people Of Tennessee il
. 1861. He says:
In all This preliminary struggle thu
majority OF the people Of Tennessee
stood neutral in the sectional contest
They stood for the Union and the Con
! stitution aud the enforcement of IN,
q, laws. They voted lot Bell and Everett
on this broad national platform, and. i
am not mistaken in current history
they were unwillingly drawn by Demo
} cratic politicians into the fratricida
contest. But when in it they did tbei
duty manfully and bravely, each mai
according to his convictions of duty.
Here he brings in an ingenious false
hood. The people Of Tennessee wer
driven into the war by Lincoln
requisition demanding Of Gov. Harri
two regiments OF Tennesse Volunteer
10 60 down South and dnyade and de
: stroy the homes OF our own people
; The patriotic response to this infamou
requisition was: Tennessee will no
furnish single man for the purpose @
D subjugation, but fifty thousand, il ne
cessary. for the defence Of Tennessee
5 and our Southern brothers." So tina
it was Lincoln and not Democratic
: politicians" by whom the Wings "wer
unwillingly drawn into the fratricids
, contest" II is also false that the Viii
soldiers Of the South went unwilling
ly" into the war when their choice va
only IS 70 whether they should figh
against their friends. or against thei
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